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Wood Group has won a new five-year maintenance support contract with Oil Spill Response (Capping) Ltd (OSRCL).

OSRL is an industry-owned global cooperative set up to respond to oil spills with a membership of more than 160 companies.

The contract, secured by Wood Group Kenny (WGK), is to provide support for a “key part” of the OSRCL containment toolkit which would be used to control hydrocarbon release in the event of a subsea well control incident.

The multi-million dollar project will see WGK work with OSRCL to ensure flexible flowlines included in the toolkit are maintained and ready for immediate deployment

This will include maintenance management, recommendations for preservation, inspection and testing of all ancillary and lifting equipment, as well as the flexible flowlines, stored at sites in the UK, Singapore and Brazil.

The flowlines are critical to the containment toolkit designed for the Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP), a joint industry project managed by Shell in Norway and funded by eight major operating companies.

WGK, with support from Wood Group Mustang, has supported the SWRP project since 2012.

The OSRCL contract work will be delivered by WGK teams in Aberdeen and Newcastle and in Perth, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Wood Group Kenny chief executive, Bob MacDonald, said: “This project is of vital importance to the industry as subsea well control and oil spill containment is always high on the safety agenda and key to incident response.

“When an operator is faced with a situation which could lead to a significant hydrocarbon release, this system has to be ready to be deployed rapidly with the assurance that it will be fit for purpose."

MacDonald added: “Being selected to support OSRCL in this work is testament to the calibre of engineering and level of expertise we have within WGK.

“Having designed the subsea system, and delivering an innovation solution for this, we are ideally placed to ensure the ongoing effectiveness of this contingency technology.”